We invest money; but we also invest enormous amounts of time -- more as fractional co-founders, than normal investors. We don’t want to be the CEO; instead we want to make our CEOs better and we are designed to amicably move on when our companies reach maturity.

We prefer industries where we have hard-won experience and where we have key relationships that can change our portfolio companies’ worlds. We build and invest in companies that use technology to humanize relationships and to define consumer identities.

Napkin-Stage

• You are an authentic, promising entrepreneur with a big idea that addresses a big market.

• You are passionate, have domain expertise, and you are coachable.

• So here’s how we’ve helped entrepreneurs like you:
  We’ve found brilliant executive talent; we’ve helped build great products; we’ve landed channel partners; we’ve found first customers; we’ve brought on amazing co-investors; and we’ve helped our entrepreneurs to powerfully tell their stories.

Moving-Ladder Against a Bigger Wall Stage

• You have proven product market fit.

• You’ve bootstrapped or have been remarkably capital efficient.

• Now you want to GO BIG, to raise venture, and scale.

• So here’s how we’ve helped entrepreneurs like you:
  We’ve renegotiated capital tables; we’ve formed new strategic plans; we’ve helped to fill out management teams; we’ve helped our entrepreneurs to powerfully tell their stories, and we’ve connected them to world-class venture investors. 

Our Team

PARTNER

Cliff Boro

Clifford Boro is a General Partner of Simplexity Venture Studio Fund and supports portfolio companies as Chairman of Verse.io, CEO of Knowbility,  and serves as a member of the Board of Directors of ClientPoint and GigTurbo. Prior to Simplexity, Cliff was the Co-Founder and CEO of Zui.com (sold to Saban Capital) and served as Chairman and CEO of Infogate (sold to AOL Time Warner). Cliff is a very-experienced venture-backed CEO, founder, investor and entrepreneurial catalyst. He has helped many companies from founding to exit, including serving as a founding member of the Board of 6Sense, Senior Advisor to Chatmeter, Founding Chairman of Say Media, Board member of Luxology, and Chairman of mSnap. For his work at Zui.com, Cliff was named a 2011 Champion of Change by the White House. Cliff began his career working in the hedge fund industry and worked at both Steinhardt Partners and Soros Fund Management. In his free time, Cliff loves to spend time sailing and boating and performing amateur improvisational comedy. Cliff serves as a Board member of the San Diego Performing Arts League, a member of the Board of Temple Beth El in La Jolla and a member of the Board of Connections (which harnesses the power of improv techniques with teens on the autistic spectrum).

PARTNER

Frederick Morrison

Frederick is a General Partner of Simplexity Venture Studio Fund and a co-founder of Simplexity Services. He started his entrepreneurial journey in the financial systems and IT field that resulted in the IPO of his company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. During this time, the company was recognized as the third fasted growing company in South Africa. As CEO he was actively involved in the acquisitions and growth of the group and was constantly involved in the strategy to unlock potential of these companies. In the years following the IPO Frederick also founded numerous companies and was actively involved the formation and operation of the Superior Aviation Group. In the last few years Frederick was exclusively involved in the fintech space. This development included financial ERP solutions, financial collection, and mobile banking platforms. The focus was on scaling and process automation for these fintech solutions, a skill well applied in his role as CEO of Simplexity Services. Frederick completed his degree in Computer Science at the North West University (South Africa).